India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
New Delhi, May 3: With states scrambling to secure vaccines, Adar Poonawalla — whose firm is the main supplier of COVID vaccine in India — on Monday said his firm cannot ramp up production overnight as vaccine making is a specialised process.
Serum Institute of India (SII) has orders from the Government of India to supply 11 crore more doses over the next few months on top of 15 crore already supplied, he said in a statement.
Another 11 crore doses will be supplied to states and private hospitals in the next few months, he said.
He, however, did not give a timeline for supplying the vaccines.
Pune-based SII can produce 6-7 crore doses a month and is reportedly planning to ramp up production to 10 crore by July.
Facing the world’s fastest-growing coronavirus outbreak, India has seen a near collapse of its health care system in several parts as hospitals ran out of oxygen and did…
